Central Kansas Library System

"In the early 1840s the first emigrant wagon trains rolled westward from the United States across plain, desert, and mountain, to a hoped-for good life in Oregon and California. Whole families, with their furniture and livestock crammed into horse- and ox-drawn wagons, followed trails blazed by the official explorers or the pioneering fur-trappers who now turned to guiding the trains. It is these people who tell the story. They tell it through their...